The Impact of School Environment on Public Secondary School Students’ Academic Performance in Kwimba District, Tanzania
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The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of school environment on public secondary
school students‟ academic performance in Kwimba District. The study had four specific
objectives namely; to examine the effects of school physical facilities on public secondary
students‟ academic performance in Kwimba District, to find out the effects of school climate on
public secondary school students‟ academic performance, to identify the challenges facing public
secondary school students‟ academic performance in Kimba District and to explore strategies to
improve school environment in public secondary schools in Kwimba District. A mixed approach
method and convergent parallel design were employed. The sample of the study consisted of 265
respondents that included: 08 school heads from 08 schools, schools were given alphabets A-H
to represent them, 57 other teachers, and 200 students. The study adopted purposive sampling
technique to sample head of schools and simple random sampling for students and normal
teachers. The researcher ensured reliability by using testing and re-testing method while pilot
study tested the validity of the instrument. The data was collected through questionnaires,
interview and observations and then analyzed by using Statistical Package of Social Science
(SPSS) for quantitative data and descriptive analysis for qualitative and data was presented in
form of frequency tables. The findings revealed that most of schools are not located in conducive
areas because some of them are located in noisy places while others are far away from where
students reside, so they are forced to walk a long distance to school, also it was found that most
of the schools have inadequate school physical facilities like classrooms to accommodate all
students. Lastly, most of students‟ have low morale for studies due to the fact that most of
teachers do not stay longer at the school to assist them when assistance is needed. The study
recommended that, school environment should favor students to make them concentrate in their
studies.
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School Environment